Rhodes Travel Coverage

GEORGE VECSEY is a sports columnist for the New York Times. BY GEORGE VECSEY Because my work takes me all over the United States, my wife and I prefer to take our long vacations in Europe. With each trip, we think of ourselves as becoming more...

By ROBERT D. KAPLAN; ROBERT D. KAPLAN, who lives in Portugal, is the author of ''Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind the Famine'' (Westview Press), a book about Ethiopia

LEAD: IN the spring of 1945, the poet and novelist Lawrence Durrell arrived on Rhodes with a British occupation force. The war in Europe had just ended and the island's main harbor was still full of German mines. Durrell, ''speechless with...